Originally Posted by
mahogany bob
Selecting the new CAS seems a bit like shifting the deckchairs on the titanic.
From afar it seems to me selecting even the perfect leader will not do a lot to increase the RAF’s fighting power and influence !
It all comes down to money -of which we don’t seem to have a lot to spare!
Suggest amalgamate our armed forces to reduce number of top heavy staff ,reduce costs ,stop infighting and improve liaison ?
Also Sandhurst could be turned into an immigration centre ! ( flippant !)
(I know that it didn’t work in Canada years ago but times have changed !)
Oh no, not that old line again, the Canadians have long since reversed the ill-advised purple uniform approach. Their naval personnel are back out of green and into blue and like wise the air force. I doesn't save money as much as excuses further defence cuts and contraction. Rishi Sunak, unlike Boris Johnson sees Ukraine as a far away squabble, for all his rhetoric. His masked slipped recently, and he very wrongly said all conflicts end in a negotiated settlement, and he expected this one to be resolved the same way. Our problem is we haven't got anyone in our entire political mainstream now who is at all exercised by concerns over foreign and defence affairs,
FB